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China Keeps Open Sourcing Its AI Models. Why?

Moonshot AI releases Kimi 2 with open-source code

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Nick Reese
Jul 15, 2025
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It’s not intuitive but the evidence is considerable.

Conventional thinking looks at technology in China as sitting behind a great opaque wall of state surveillance and oppression. Just ask most people. Many in the US, and especially DC, will tell you that Chinese technology can’t be trusted from TikTok to Deepseek. I’m not debating the threat emanating f…

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